Development of dependent structures: an instance from the history of English

• Autores: Cristina Suárez Gómez
• Localización: A survey of corpus-based research [Recurso electrónico] / Pascual Cantos Gómez (ed. lit.), Aquilino Sánchez Pérez (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-84-692-2198-3, págs. 281-292
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Evidence has been provided for a diachronic development of dependent structures from independent ones and this process has recently been described as a process of interclausal grammaticalization (Hopper and Traugott 2003: chapter 7). Studies of clause linkage generally assume that dependent structures derive from originally independent ones. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the development of a particular example of dependent structures, particularly the case of relative clauses in the history of the English language.

    This paper is structured as follows. First, the theoretical framework is presented.

    Next, I move to the analysis of relative clauses. I will present a brief description of the corpus and will pay more attention to the corpus analysis. Finally, some conclusions from the analysis are drawn.